Modeling Branches for Active Manipulation using Iterative Parameter Estimation
arXiv:2606.19314v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study presents a method for modeling diverse plant branches by iteratively estimating material parameters to support delicate branch manipulation. Branch manipulation is necessary in agricultural robotics for plant repositioning, stabilizing, and clearing visual obstructions in dense foliage. The proposed method builds a tetrahedral branch model from point-cloud data and simulates its behavior using the finite element method. Using real obser
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arXiv:2606.19314v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study presents a method for modeling diverse plant branches by iteratively estimating material parameters to support delicate branch manipulation. Branch manipulation is necessary in agricultural robotics for plant repositioning, stabilizing, and clearing visual obstructions in dense foliage. The proposed method builds a tetrahedral branch model from point-cloud data and simulates its behavior using the finite element method. Using real observed deformation data, it iteratively estimates branch parameters and then computes an optimal path with a deformation-aware motion planner to move and stabilize branches within another robot's field of view. Across 30 trials on branches with varying geometries and material properties, the proposed method reduced the deformation energy by 35.69% while increasing the path length by 8.10% on average.
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Originally published at arxiv.org.
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Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.19314
